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The most beautiful fig may contain a worm.
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A leader who does not take advice is not a leader.
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There is no beauty but the beauty of action.
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The best of mankind is a farmer; the best food is fruit.
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Do not call the forest that shelters you a jungle.
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Knowledge is like a garden: If it is not cultivated, it cannot be harvested.
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Good words are food, bad words poison.
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If there is character, ugliness becomes beauty; if there is none, beauty becomes ugliness.
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Ashes fly back into the face of him who throws them.
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By trying often, the monkey learns to jump from the tree.
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